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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Lu Hsun's work create trouble for him?
(a) His work revealed that he had a mistress, causing his wife to leave him.
(b) His work revealed money laundering schemes that led to his arrest.
(c) His work caused him to be ridiculed by members of his home town.
(d) His work is criticized by the Communist government.

2. What inspired Ivan Turgenev's view of servants?
(a) Turgenev's father trafficked in slaves.
(b) He was raised by a servant.
(c) He was raised watching his mother abuse all of those around her.
(d) His father was killed by a servant.

3. Who wrote "How to Start to Write?"
(a) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(b) Carlos Fuentes.
(c) Walter Benjamin.
(d) Ivan Turgenev.

4. Who wrote "The Execution of Tropmann?"
(a) William Hazlitt.
(b) Carlos Fuentes.
(c) Hubert Butler.
(d) Ivan Turgenev.

5. Robert Louis Stevenson is today best known for what type of writings?
(a) Diary entries.
(b) Poems.
(c) Essays.
(d) Novels.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote "The Death of the Moth?"

2. Which person in Virginia Woolf's life died when Woolf was very young?

3. Who wrote "Once More to the Lake"?

4. What event starts the essay, "On Running After One's Hat?"

5. Who wrote "The Crack-Up"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Junichiro Tanizaki's contribution to world literature? How has Tanizaki's writing style been characterized?

2. What subject dominated the writings of George Orwell? Name three specific things George Orwell wrote about.

3. What two works of G. K. Chesterton are included in this volume? What are the subjects of these essays?

4. How does Seymour Krim's life compare to Mary McCarthy's? How did Krim's childhood impact his writing?

5. How did Virginia Woolf's personal background impact her work?

6. What is Orwell's "Such, Such Were the Joys..." about? What complaints does Orwell have about the subject?

7. What is the subject of Krim's "For My Brothers and Sisters in the Failure Business"? What feelings does Krim express in the essay?

8. What is the subject of E.B. White's "Once More to the Lake"? What is the message White relays about the state of the lake?

9. What tone is Max Beerbohm famous for in his essays?

10. Under what circumstances are Lu Hsun's "This Tool is Life" and "Death" written? What are the subjects of these essays?

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